Making a nod to Fontana’s series ‘Concetto Spaziale (Teatrino)’, Ian J Brown’s paintings sit within sculptural reliefs which extend the gestural movement of the brush marks, concealing and exposing the painting beneath in equal measure. His paintings explore the use of architecture as a symbol of class, sexuality and status through its use and misuse. When an already determined use of a building is taken and then perverted, the form and detail of the building are exposed.
Brown’s paintings use the function of a theatre set to separate the idea of self realisation from the physical world. In a society that is becoming more and more utilitarian and made for profit. He creates his own theatrical worlds, and invites the viewer to be an active participant.
Education
× 2003—2004 MA at Chelsea College of Art
× 2000—2003 BA at Winchester School of Art
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
× 2022 Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China (forthcoming)
× 2021 Midnight Shadows, Castor Gallery, London
× 2017 Toilers of the Sea, (Collaboration with Jonathan Baldock)
× Hull Maritime Museum (part of Offshore — Artists Explore the
× Sea at the Ferens Gallery), Hull
Selected Group Exhibitions
× 2021 Holding Hands, Union Gallery, London
× 2016 Costermongering, Belmacz. London
× 2016 My Own Private Idaho, Chalton Gallery, London
× 2015 Inspired by Soane, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London,
× 2015 59 Old Bethnal Green Road London
× 2014 Quo Vadis, London
× 2012 The Perfect Nude, Charlie Smith Gallery, London,
× 2009 Fringe MK Painting Award, Milton Keynes,
× 2006 Invasions of Piquancy, Kenny Schachter Rove Gallery, London,
× 2005 Redundancy, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
× 2005 Guild House, Bermondsey, London.
× 2004 Chamber Pot Now, Chambers Gallery, City of London
Collections
× Deji Art Museum
Furter Information
× Ian J Brown in conversation with Nuka Nayu
× Instagram
Imprint
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Making a nod to Fontana’s series ‘Concetto Spaziale (Teatrino)’, Ian J Brown’s paintings sit within sculptural reliefs which extend the gestural movement of the brush marks, concealing and exposing the painting beneath in equal measure. His paintings explore the use of architecture as a symbol of class, sexuality and status through its use and misuse. When an already determined use of a building is taken and then perverted, the form and detail of the building are exposed.
Brown’s paintings use the function of a theatre set to separate the idea of self realisation from the physical world. In a society that is becoming more and more utilitarian and made for profit. He creates his own theatrical worlds, and invites the viewer to be an active participant.
Education
× 2003—2004 MA at Chelsea College of Art
× 2000—2003 BA at Winchester School of Art
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
× 2022 Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China (forthcoming)
× 2021 Midnight Shadows, Castor Gallery, London
× 2017 Toilers of the Sea, (Collaboration with Jonathan Baldock)
× Hull Maritime Museum (part of Offshore — Artists Explore the
× Sea at the Ferens Gallery), Hull
Selected Group Exhibitions
× 2021 Holding Hands, Union Gallery, London
× 2016 Costermongering, Belmacz. London
× 2016 My Own Private Idaho, Chalton Gallery, London
× 2015 Inspired by Soane, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London,
× 2015 59 Old Bethnal Green Road London
× 2014 Quo Vadis, London
× 2012 The Perfect Nude, Charlie Smith Gallery, London,
× 2009 Fringe MK Painting Award, Milton Keynes,
× 2006 Invasions of Piquancy, Kenny Schachter Rove Gallery, London,
× 2005 Redundancy, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
× 2005 Guild House, Bermondsey, London.
× 2004 Chamber Pot Now, Chambers Gallery, City of London
Collections
× Deji Art Museum
Furter Information
× Ian J Brown in conversation with Nuka Nayu
× Instagram
Imprint
― This website and its content is ©opyright of Ian J Brown, unless stated otherwise. Last updated August 2021. All rights reserved.
― Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following: you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only. You may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material. You may not, except with our written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.
― For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as purchase orders or inquiries you submit to us as the website operator, this website uses either an SSL or a TLS encryption programme. You can recognise an encrypted connection by checking whether the address line of the browser switches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the browser line. If the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
―Website design: Sascia Reibel & Mathias Lempart from Shortnotice.studio